Looks like Chris Pine has found another wrinkle in time. Earlier on Tuesday, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins revealed via Twitter that the actor would be back alongside Gal Gadot‘s Diana Prince for the 1984-set sequel to last year’s World War I-era blockbuster. This despite the fact that Pine’s character, flyboy Steve Trevor, apparently perished at the end of Wonder Woman, sacrificing his own life in the midst of the climactic battle and thereby allowing the Amazonian warrior to see the goodness in mankind. And unlike another presumed-dead war veteran named Steve — as in Steve Rogers aka Captain America — Trevor didn’t crash-land in the Arctic, where his body would have the benefit of natural refrigeration. Instead, his plane exploded in the skies above Europe, a demise that would be hard to walk (or fly) away from.

And yet, here Steve is in 1984, still sporting a flight suit and appearing more than a little confused. (To be fair, the ’80s were a weird decade, even for those of us who weren’t refugees from another time period.) Jenkins has understandably avoided commenting on the hows and whys of Trevor’s return, so fans have naturally rushed in to fill the void. One popular theory floating around is that the Wonder Woman sequel — currently being referred to as Wonder Woman 1984 — is borrowing from the second season of Lynda Carter’s iconic TV series, which took a time jump from the 1940s to the 1970s, and had Trevor return in the form of his son, Steve Trevor Jr., still played by the original Steve, Lyle Waggoner.

It’s likely that wedding bells aren’t going to be heard in Wonder Woman 1984, given that Diana has put Steve behind her in the years since his death and is solely focused on her career as a global superhero. (Not for nothing, but it’s also worth remembering that Diana didn’t respond to her Aquaman’s Lasso of Truth-enabled flirting in Justice League with a firm, “I’m married.”) She’s also trying to get a handle on life in the ’80s. Not long after Jenkins shared her photo of Pine, Gadot posted a shot of Diana gazing intently at a bank of TV screens.

As eagle-eyed viewers have noticed, those screens are displaying a menagerie of era-appropriate pop culture imagery, including Dallas‘s own J.R. Ewing, Christie Brinkley from National Lampoon’s Vacation, and a neon-lit soda commercial.